Special thanks to Alice Coppes Greg Manocherian Osman Dumbuya Julius Kruta Richard Keller Chris Hrabalek Jens Schaedel Joerg Knoblich Henrik Noebel Wiebke Cravaack Daniel Borck Etienne Salomé 2016 Berlin based artist Etienne Salomé was born Sport, still the fastest production car in the in , on 20 September, 1980, where he world with 431,072 km/h, as well as the also grew up. Since completing his Master’s interior of the 16C Galibier showcar Degree at the Royal College of Art in London and its numerous accessories, thus defining in 2005, he has received international acclaim a true Bugatti experience for future customers for his designs and art works. He is without and celebrating the 100 years anniversary of question one of the most exciting French the Brand. In the past decade the French designers and artists of his generation. designer not only contributed as a stylist, but also as an artist with his art works featured Following a career at Kia, Mazda and Renault, on the door panels of the Bugatti Vitesse he is currently the Director of Interior Design Constantini as well as original hand sketched and Assistant Chief Designer at Bugatti paintings on the leather applications of the Automobiles. He has contributed to Bugatti Bugatti Vitesse Black Bess – elevating those Design for more than 10 years. In 2007 cars to true rolling canvases. Salomé was project manager for the collabo- Salomé’ s background in art also led to the ration of Bugatti and Hermès that gave birth collaboration with world renowned French to the limited edition FBG. artist Bernar Venet, instantly upgrading an Moving on, Salomé designed an exterior and engineering marvel to an authentic and interior concept of the Bugatti Veyron Super unique piece of art. The interior embroidery and the exterior paint to include sculpture and painting. For sculp- job are more about “Haute Couture” than tural works, using materials such as milled Automotive Design. In 2015 Salomé also took solid blocs of aluminum or metal 3D printing. on the responsibility for the product depart- His work is exhibited worldwide in all Bugatti ment of Bugatti: Including collaborations with Automobiles dealerships, such as London, Parmigiani Fleurier for their latest Aerolithe Milan, Munich, Taipei, Tokyo and New York, Performance and Type 390 watches, with representing the art side of the brand. In his Luxury Living designing the complete furniture latest 2D artwork, Salomé has developed collection in 2016 including the famous new unique layered photographic images. The Cobra chair, with PG Bikes for the design of meaning of the work emerges slowly and their latest light weight bicycle, with Palmer experientially with the passage of time. Johnson yacht for the design of the Supersport Salomé’s “Atlantic” sculptures have been With design you have to make products which can Niniette 66 feet yacht, while having been exhibited in Paris, Milan, Antwerp and Geneva. attract a lot of people and customers. Art you only do appointed Assistant Head of Design. Etienne Every year Salomé exhibits in Paris in February, for yourself, regardless of whether anyone likes it or not. When you stand in front of the canvas or sit with an Salomé’s recent work includes the interior taking part in a collective art exhibition during open sketch book you have the opportunity to express of the Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo and the Salon Retromobile, Porte de Versailles. yourself and your innermost motivations. One can Bugatti Chiron, presented at the 2015 learn a lot from art, it opens your mind. Frankfurt and the 2016 Geneva motor shows Etienne is the father of one daughter and

Etienne Salomé respectively. Salomé’s oeuvre has expanded lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Art Selection

Chronophotography is an antique photographic technique from a print measuring 200 x 200 cm, using 35 selected iconic Bugatti the Victorian era (beginning about 1867–68), capturing movement speedometers, all compressed into one single image that can be in several frames of print. These prints can be subsequently looked at in one moment. It visually draws you in and gets you arranged either like animation cells or layered in a single frame. trying to figure out how these visual traces in the result relate to the It is a predecessor to cinematography and moving film, involving source material. I like the way that the source material is my own a series of different cameras, originally created and used for the photography, and that I create visually interesting but semi-abstract scientific study of movement. The Chronospeedometers Bugatti is imagery by means of a very clearly defined process.

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Chronophotography is defined as “a set of photographs of a evolution of the tachometers, which are changing in moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting graphics but not in technique. As we arrive now more successive phases of motion”. Those successive phases are and more to digital instruments in the next generation of 35 selected iconic Ferrari tachometers, all compressed into one automotive instruments, those “automotive clock works” single image that can be looked at in one moment. It not only are slowly but surely disappearing, making this artwork represents the 70 years of history of the brand but also the a true expression of the past.

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Artistic production can only result from the curious, open thought. 200 x 200 cm print, using 35 selected iconic Porsche tachometers, It functions as a system whose richness consists of accepting at all compressed into one single image that can be looked at in one one and the same time, the principles of harmony and conflict. moment. It visually draws you in and gets you trying to figure out It is the competition between those two elements or givens that how these visual traces in the result relate to the source material. creates a whole; and thus the principle of anti-organization be- I like the way that the source material is my own photography, and comes a factor in the development, the indispensable dynamism that I create visually interesting but semi-abstract imagery of the creative process. The Chronotachometers Porsche is a large by means of a very clearly defined process.

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If you would have to look at the complete history of the evolution into trying to figure out how these visual traces in the of Lamborghini instruments from its creation until today you would result relate to the source material. This creation is a need an extended contemplation over time. The Chronospeedo- visually interesting but semi-abstract imagery by means meters Lamborghini art work compresses it into a single image that of a very clearly defined process. The final composite can be looked at in one moment. The viewer is attracted visually image is a large printed 200 x 200 cm canvas.

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left: above: From the chronospeedometers art work, the integration from The Chronospeedometers Rolls Royce and Bentley Chronospeedometers Bentley Chronospeedometers Rolls Royce multiple speedometers selected all through the years of are large 200 x 200 cm prints, using 35 selected iconic High Quality Canvas Print High Quality Canvas Print production of the brand, provides the third parameter in the speedometers respectively, all compressed into one 200 x 200 cm 200 x 200 cm realization of these two-dimensional photographic objects: time! single image. 2017 2017 Art Selection

Salomé’s compressions of imagery also reflect a deeply philo- sophical yet visceral collapsing of time, allowing past and present to exist simultaneously. The Chronospeedometers Maserati is a large 200 x 200 cm print, using 35 selected iconic Maserati speedometers, all compressed into one single image that can be looked at in one moment.

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Every layer is an effect that needs to be created, each layer is a fallible human decision. There is a decision made as to what to keep and what has to disappear. This process allows to cut out the camera completely. Each layer in the resulting artwork adds complexity similar to a painter’s mark on a canvas. Salomé’s chronospeedometers are not “taken”; they are built. The final composite image is a large printed 200 x 200 cm canvas.

Chronospeedometers Alfa Romeo High Quality Canvas Print 200 x 200 cm 2017 The creation of this exceptional “chronosculpture” draws its combined with photography. The model for this chronosculpture inspiration from the calligraphic sign ENSO, which means used here is a Porsche 911, a 964RS model, providing an “circle” in Japanese, it represents an “expression of the moment”. endless source of fascination. Power is nothing without control, A moment when the mind is free to simply let the body create. this sculpture embodies the acceleration of the car until the drift, The term chronophotography was coined by French physio- this is no more A to B travelling, the car accelerates and the driver logist Étienne-Jules Marey to describe photographs of movement slowly looses the control. Each sculpture is personally approved from which measurements could be taken and motion could and checked by the artist. be studied. It is derived from the Greek word chrónos (“time”) I cannot deny that I love speed, not always for its own sake but for being in control of it. There is a huge responsibility, it requires Chronosculpture Porsche 911 concentration and respect, but exercised with care and precision Solid Aluminum it is hugely rewarding. 60 x 60 x 5 cm 2017 Etienne Salomé Chronosculpture Porsche 911 Solid Aluminum 60 x 60 x 5 cm 2017

The creation of this exceptional sculpture draws its inspiration eponymous creator. Each car built bearing his name is an incredible from the Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, providing an endless display of otherworldly craftsmanship and fanatic dedication to source of fascination, named in 1936 as an homage to Jean aesthetics and functional perfection, an endless feast of spine- Mermoz’ death in an attempt flying over the Atlantic ocean. This tingling detail and purity of form. Today Etienne Salomé works as was the starting point of an amazing adventure which gave birth the Director of Interior Design at Bugatti, his work, which takes to the Atlantic sculpture created by the talented hands of Etienne the exterior shape of an Atlantic, is transformed into a sculpture Salomé. The shapes are inspired by the wooden internal structure to be contemplated, to be intensively experienced. It is not a race of the real car. This sculpture results of no less than 100 hours of for what is next, but simply a love of beauty and orchestry. Objects machining in order to carve the pure shapes out of a solid bloc, made by hand are treasures, and are glamorous in every detail. each sculpture is personally approved and checked by the artist. The result is what we designate as a work of art. “Atlantic” represents the ultimate in fine art automotive masterpiece. A real eye catcher, engineered to last for generations! The Bugatti Type 57S Atlantic is the most expensive, coveted This sculpture is offered in two variations: classic car of all times. Classic Edition, 50 cm, non-limited, 10.900 € / $ 12.200 ex works, ex VAT had a “strong personality”, but like most great AlMgSil, 60 hours milling, hand-polished people, it was because and not in spite of his unique character that Bugatti is still known nearly 70 years after his death as the creative Collectors Edition, 100 cm, limited to 57 units, genius behind the most beautiful and exquisitely-engineered cars 39.000 € / $ 43.500 ex works, ex VAT ever built, machines endowed with the artistic, human spirit of their AlMgSil, 100 hours milling, hand-polished T35 Hand-Etched Aluminum 150 x 50 cm 2016 Atlantic Hand-Etched Aluminium 200 x 50 cm 2016 Ettore Bugatti Hand-Etched Aluminum 50 x 40 cm 2016 Monaco Tunnel 1929 Williams on his Bugatti T35B entering and exiting the tunnel on the way to victory of the first ever Monaco GP. Hand-Etched Aluminum 225 x 150 cm, 225 x 150 cm 2016 Monaco Tunnel, 1929 Detail Williams on his Bugatti T35B entering and exiting the tunnel on the way to victory of the first ever Monaco GP. Hand-Etched Aluminum 2016 Atlantic Hand-Etched Aluminum 150 x 75 cm 2016 Start ACF-GP de France 1931 Hand-Etched Aluminum 500 x 150 cm 2016 Le moteur de monsieur Jean Hand-Etched Aluminum 30 x 42 cm 2016 Bugatti Veyron 5.5 Aluminum Print 200 x 140 cm 2011 Lancia Stratos Aluminum Print 200 x 140 cm 2009 Bugatti Atlantic Leather & Felt Embroidery 110 x 40 cm 2013 Bugatti Atlantic Detail Leather & Felt Embroidery 110 x 40 cm 2013 Bugatti Atlantic Leather & Felt Embroidery 110 x 40 cm 2013 Bugatti Atlantic Leather & Felt Embroidery 110 x 40 cm 2013 ETIENNE SALOMÉ 12 April –17 April, 2016: Biography Salone Del Mobile, Milan The Classic Edition Atlantic sculpture is exhibited 1980 Born in Paris, France on the Ettore Bugatti desk, during the presentation Lives and works in Berlin, Germany of the first modern Bugatti furniture collection for the Salone del Mobile in Milan. EDUCATION 30 April– 30 June, 2016: 2005 Royal College of Art, London WAFT Gallery, Antwerp 2003 BTS industrial design ENSAAMA The birth place of most of the creations of Rembrandt (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Bugatti was chosen to exhibit the Bugatti Atlantic Appliques et des Metiers d’Art) Collectors Edition. The Waft Gallery was delighted to present a special group exhibition, curated collectively [email protected] by the entire gallery staff. www.etienne-salome.com 2016–2017: Bugatti Dealership, worldwide 22 selected dealerships all around the world acquired SELECTED EXHIBITIONS the Atlantic sculpture to illustrate the art side of the Bugatti brand, as well as the inspiration extracted 30 September, 2013: from the DNA of this one of a kind masterpiece. L’ Art au Château, Molsheim Sculptures can be found at Bugatti Showrooms in Installation at the Remise Sud, Molsheim, birth Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Dubai, London, Zurich, place of Bugatti. Celebration of the creations of Brussels, Geneva, Monaco, Doha, New York, San Jean Bugatti, especially the Type 57SC Atlantic, Diego, Taipei, Tokyo and many more cities– as well in a co-exhibition with latest Bugatti Grand Sport as a piece of Alsatian art at the Maison d’Alsace Vitesse Legend Edition Jean Bugatti. Paris Champs Elysées.

18 January– 22 January, 2016: 8 February –12 February, 2017: SIHH, Geneva Salon Retromobile, Paris The Atlantic sculpture is exhibited on the Parmigiani The “Galerie des Artistes” presents a selection showstand, show case of this technical piece of art. of artists with automotive creations using various techniques. The complete exhibition of Etienne 3 February– 7 February, 2016: Salomé is based on a Bugatti theme. It mixes 2D art Salon Retromobile, Paris of etching on blacked out aluminum plates with Retromobile is the first classic car exhibition to start 3D art of collector edition Atlantic sculptures. the season, it is held every year in Paris at Porte de The largest piece is the start of the Grand Prix de Versailles. The Atlantic sculpture (Collectors Edition France measuring 5 m x 1,50 m, which helps the 100 cm) is being exhibited next to two Atlantic viewer to immerse himself totally in this unique embroidery art works. moment. The view inside the Monaco tunnel 1929 creates a very modern approach, with Williams on his 18 February, 2016: green Type 35B, blasting on the way to the victory. Design Atelier, Molsheim This is a diptych of Williams driving in and coming out The collector Atlantic sculpture is being exhibited of the tunnel. Both techniques used by the artist are in the new Design Atelier in the Remise Sud. authentic and made to last for generations. IMPRINT

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